Miklós Bánffy

Count Miklós Bánffy of Losoncz ( born December 30, 1873 in Kolozsvár, at that time the kingdom of Hungary, † June 6, 1950 in Budapest) was a Hungarian landowner, politician and author of historical novels.

Life

Bánffy came from a Hungarian landowner family in Transylvania, which bore the title of count since 1855. To the possession of the family, the castle is in Bánffy Bonchida. He studied law and in 1901 it became a member of the Hungarian Parliament. From 1906 to 1909 he was prefect of the county of Cluj. He was one of the editors of the conservative magazine " Erdélyi Lapok " and was director of the Budapest Opera and the National Theatre from 1912 to 1918, where he was one of the sponsors of the performance of the music of Bela Bartok.

After the First World War for Hungary lost Transylvania became part of the Treaty of Trianon Romania, whose revision Bánffy operating from Hungary. So he was in Hungary under the Regent Miklós Horthy on April 14, 1921 to December 29, 1922 Foreign Minister in the Cabinet István Bethlen. In order not to lose his property in Romania, in 1926 he had to opt for the Romanian citizenship and take up residence in Romania. In addition to journalistic work he had in 1913 published his first stage work. In the 1930s, he wrote a three-part contemporary novel about the situation in his home region before the First World War, the first part of the trilogy appeared in 1934 in Budapest, the last 1940. Bánffy wrote for the literary magazine " Erdélyi Helikon " and was its editor in chief.

The Second Vienna Award was established in 1940 Transylvania Hungarian again, what Bánffy had agitated. In April 1943 Bánffy in Bucharest tried to bring together the Romanian and Hungarian aspirations to leave the Axis powers, because of the mutual territorial claims negotiations failed, however.

At the conquest of Hungary by the Soviet troops in 1944 his wife and daughter fled to Budapest, while Bánffy remained on his estate in Transylvania, Romania was again the now incorporated. He was expropriated there and was able to emigrate to Hungary in 1949.

Writings

• A nagyúr, Drama, 1913.
• Reggeltől - estig, novel, Kolozsvár, 1927.
• Martinovics, Drama, Kolozsvár, 1931.
• Fortéjos Deák Boldizsár memoriáléja, Kolozsvár, 1931.
• Emlékeimből, Kolozsvár, 1932.
• Megszámláltattál, novel, Budapest, 1935. ( The font in flames, from the Hungarian by Andreas Oplatka, Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Wien 2012, ISBN 978-3-552-05559-9 )
• És híjjával találtattál, novel, Budapest, 1937. ( Missing Treasures from the Hungarian by Andreas Oplatka, Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Wien, 2013, ISBN 978-3-552-05596-4 )
• Darabokra szaggattatol, novel, Budapest, 1940.